Scripting is now the first choice for clued-up administrators who want to get things done quickly and in an automated fashion. However, scripting does bring its own set of issues.
One only need look here or here to feel the pain. Software-defined data centres exist purely in code (obviously with hardware underneath) so to help …

Even a turkey can get a reprieve: Microsoft's CodePlex shut-down date has run late, but is still imminent.
In March, Redmond announced it would put its collaborative software repository out of its misery. Its intent was to put the site into read-only mode during October, ahead of a December 15 shut-down.
That timetable seems …

Given that code sharing is a big part of the GitHub mission, it should come at no surprise that the platform stores a lot of duplicated code: 70 per cent, a study has found.
An international team of eight researchers didn't set out to measure GitHub duplication. Their original aim was to try and define the “granularity” of …

Microsoft and GitHub on Wednesday announced real-time collaboration in their respective code editors, almost as if they'd been collaborating.
Microsoft offered a placeholder rather than a product. Said program tools director Amanda Silver: "We’re working on 'Visual Studio Live Share,' which enables developers using Visual …

A quirk in the way Git handles data deduplication can be exploited to crash most computers with a single Git command.
Developer Kate Murphy said this "Git bombing" can be pulled off by creating and organizing a repository of just 12 4KB objects so that cloning it fills up all available RAM and swap space until the machine …

At Pier 70 in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, where ships once were built, code-hosting biz GitHub held forth on building and shipping code, and on the people who do so.
Following a manic Looney Tunes-inspired cartoon intro, Chris Wanstrath, cofounder and departing chief exec, opened the keynote presentation by …

It's the age of the chatbot. The chatbot revolution is coming. Unless it isn't.
Conversational User Interfaces are still very much on the Innovation Trigger rising curve of Gartner's hype cycle. And the people who are the most hyped up about chatbots seem to be the people that sell platforms to build them on. As chatbots seep …

European digital rights groups and open science advocates are mobilising against proposed EU copyright changes they say would hamper information sharing.
At issue is a proposal, which first landed last year, to stop people uploading copyrighted material by applying a YouTube-like filter against content fingerprints.
That …

Chris Wanstrath plans to end his second stint as GitHub CEO by leading the search for his replacement.
Wanstrath confirmed a story which first landed via Forbes' in a brief statement send to media over the weekend:
“As GitHub approaches 700 employees, with more than $200M in ARR, accelerating growth, and more than 20 million …

GitHub has added a chunk of features it says will help new users and projects build better communities.
Singing the “teamwork” song, the organisation says the features announced here are about making it easier to contribute to projects.
For project maintainers, new contributors will show a “first time contributor badge” …

GitHub's taken a leaf out of Google's Chromium book, introducing a feature that puts review requirements under the control of someone designated as a code owner.
Either individuals or teams can be code owners, responsible for a given slab of software and notified whenever someone makes a pull request.
Those who hold the …

The Perl 5 database interface maintainers have issued an important patch for DBD—MySQL: in some configurations it wasn't enforcing encryption.
As CVE-2017-10789 explains: “The DBD::mysql module through 4.043 for Perl uses the mysql_ssl=1 setting to mean that SSL is optional (even though this setting's documentation has a 'your …

A staffer of social music streaming site 8Tracks is having a really bad day: a bit of GitHub user carelessness has leaked 18 million accounts.
The good news: the service assures users that passwords in the database were salted and hashed – however, the usual “don't re-use passwords” still applies.
People who signed up to …

Last night, Tokyo-based Sony open-sourced its deep learning framework, which it has dubbed NNabla – Neural Network Libraries.
The libraries support static and dynamic computation graphs as well as functions, operators and optimizer modules for neural networks.
On the backend, the code is written primarily in C++11. If you …

Staff at Indian outsourcing biz Tata Consultancy Service uploaded a huge trove of financial institutions' source code and internal documents to a public GitHub repository, an IT expert has claimed.
Jason Coulls, CTO of food safety testing company Tellspec and a former banking software developer, said he stumbled upon the …

The open source community is nasty in many ways, according to a survey of over 6,000 contributors to open source projects.
The 2017 Open Source Survey was hosted on GitHub, which “collected responses from 5,500 randomly sampled respondents sourced from over 3,800 open source repositories” and then added “over 500 responses …

GitHub has tried to reassure users that it is targeting zero downtime with the help of new data centres and infrastructure software – some being open-sourced.
“The fundamentals of GitHub is it’s there when you need it. GitHub needs to be as reliable as a light switch or a dial tone,” chief executive Chris Wanstrath told The …

Social code repository GitHub is making it easier for developers to fetch data and spend money.
In conjunction with the company's Satellite 2017 conference in London on Monday, GitHub is rolling out GitHub Marketplace, a store for development tools that assist with tasks like continuous integration, code reviews, and project …